defector-orange-no-empty-space

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

Footer Legal

Header - Categories

Header Menu

The last good website.

Topics

This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

defector-no-empty-space

Defector

The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

back-in-stock-for-a-limited-time

Merch v3

IMG_3819

Tom Ley

Screen Shot 2022-12-07 at 1.38.33 PM

Journalismism

What Are The Twitter Files, And Do You Need To Care About Them?

IMG_6025-800

Albert Burneko

US-SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY-COMPUTERS-TRANSPORT-TUNNEL-BORING-MUSK

The Machines

What The Boring Company Does

VictorPortraitWClaw

David Roth

Twitter CEO Elon Musk carries a sink into Twitter headquarters as part of a typically epic jape.

TOPSHOT-US-TWITTER-MUSK-INTERNET-JUSTICE

Capital

Everything Is Silicon Valley Now

skalaf-photo

Samer Kalaf

Elon Musk's Twitter account displayed on a laptop screen is seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 1, 2022. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

musk-twitter

Life's Rich Pageant

Beware The Blue Checks

Visual Editor. Runs <a href="http://defectorstore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defectorstore.com</a>. Philadelphia-based, if you couldn’t tell.

DFmBbTQF_400x400

Dan McQuade

ST LOUIS, MO - JULY 14: Tony LaRussa and US Airways pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger takes part in the MLB All-Star Game Red Carpet Parade on July 14, 2009 in St Louis, Missouri.

tony la russa sully

Media Meltdowns

Tony La Russa’s Dream Of Twitter Verification Will Soon Just Be Something You Can Buy

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene saying some stuff about being shadowbanned. The Distraction logo is over her face, sadly.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Holds Press Conference On Elon Musk Buying Twitter

Podcasts

The Thin Line Between Owning Twitter And Being Owned By Twitter, With Matt Levine

US-ENTERTAINMENT-FASHION-METGALA-CELEBRITY-MUSEUM-PEOPLE

Video Games

Of Course Elon Musk’s ‘Elden Ring’ Build Is Dog Shit

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Demonstrates Transport Tunnel Underneath Las Vegas Convention Center

Please Enjoy Two Videos Of Elon Musk’s Obviously Bad Ideas Failing

HISTORY Presents HISTORYTalks

Life Lessons

Fake It Until You Make It (A Worse Planet For Everyone To Live On)

A single Tesla sedan drives through a tunnel

Screen Shot 2021-04-09 at 10.28.29 AM

Science

To Truly Appreciate The Elon Musk Tunnel Footage, You Must Hear It Set To Music

GERMANY-MEDIA-TESLA-AWARD

No Points For Guessing That Elon Musk’s Miami Traffic Solution Is Dumber Than Shit

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

drewkid-1-e1599592436888

Drew Magary

Supporters of US President Donald Trump rally to protest results from the 2020 Presidential election in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 14, 2020. - Trump supporters are rallying across the country to protest what the the President is calling rampant election fraud perpetrated by the Democratic Party to steal the election. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP) (Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images)

us-politics-vote-protest

Politics

There’s Big Money In False Universes

elon musk